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Wakefield General Practice Training Events Calendar is live!

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One of the roles for the Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy is to facilitate education and training across Wakefield for all of the Wakefield General Practice workforce. We have set up a calendar of training events. It is publicly accessible on Google calendars, its not on Skyline so you don't need any passwords or logins to access it. It is a Google calendar so you could add it to your Google login if you wanted to, but you don't need to. At the moment we just have TARGET dates for the next 12 months. And by the way wasn't the GP TARGET at Pontefract great yesterday. We certainly had a full house, can you spot yourself in the picture! To access the calendar click here  and if you have any events planned you want to add click here to email me with them.

GP Retention Scheme

The BMA have just announced that agreement has been reached with the Department of Health for  a new GP Retention Scheme. The scheme pays practices £76.92 per weekly session and the Retained GP a bursary of £1,000 for one to two sessions a week, £2,000 for two sessions a week and £3,000 for three sessions a week. The scheme is open to doctors who meet ALL of the following criteria: Where a doctor is leaving or has left general practice (but is still on the National Medical Performers List) due to: Personal Reasons Approaching Retirement Requires greater flexibility in order to undertake other work either within or outside of general practice AND when a regular part time role does not meeting the doctor's need for flexibility for example the requirement for short clinics or annualised hours AND where there is need for additional educational supervision. For example a newly qualified doctor needing to work 1 - 4 sessions a week due to caring responsibilities or those work...

What is a Physicians Associate?

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Practices in Wakefield have been training PA's or Physicians Associates for the last couple of years. If you are interested to know what they see their role is, what is their background and what their training consists of then click here for a YouTube video of a couple of Student PA's describing their role, background and training: Or for more details click here for a link to the University of Leeds Physician Associates pages.

We have started!

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Wakefield CCG invited bids to host the Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy and Five Towns Health Federation found out ten days ago that we have been successful. Today we had our first meeting and started work: The Academy has ambitious and wide ranging aims. We want to train a workforce that: Consists of the right people, in the right place at the right time Will enable to train and develop people who to come and be trained in Wakefield This can be sustainable and develop a training culture across General Practices in Wakefield that ensure people want to come and then stay and work in Wakefield We want to truly develop a workforce that is: Made in Wakefield; By Wakefield; For Wakefield!